The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) presents KulturfestNYC, the international festival of Jewish performing arts, that attracted 50K+ attendees in one week in its June 2015 inaugural year, and this year returns for three months, from June 6 to August 29. With over three-dozen separate events in venues across the city, the summer-long festival welcomes artists and groups from France, Romania, Japan, Israel, Russia and the U.S.
Two-time Tony Award winning actress, Christine Ebersole, performed at an intimate performance benefiting Project Angel Food at the home of Tim Robinson and Bob Cohen On Saturday, January 30, 2016.
?The McLean Community Players' production of the musical 1776, based on the events surrounding the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence, opens Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, and runs weekends through Feb. 21 at McLean's Alden Theatre. With music by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone, 1776 became an improbable hit and won three Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 1969. Director Annie O'Neill Galvin leads an award-winning cast and crew for this production.
Centenary Stage Company's family favorite Holiday Spectacular, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, returns to the Sitnik Theater on November 27 until December 13 in the Lackland Center.
KOTA Productions presents the United States premiere of Jo Noel-Hartley's new original musical, Dream Street.
The cast features Andrew Southern as Sebastian Rickter,Bray Wilkins as Tom, Amy Alvino as Laura, Bob Cohen as Eric, Kitty Ostapowicz as Leticia Moon/Mrs. Dewberry, Luisa Maria Badaracco as Heather, David Michael Kirby as Rupert Finch, and Juliana Fadeyev as Maggie Finch.
Dream Street will be performed at The Pearl Theatre, 555 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit DreamStreetNYC.com. Check out photos from the production below!
Opening tonight, April 23rd, the Mendocino Theatre Company is presents Mauritius, a darkly funny, unusual play about the hidden world of high-end stamp collecting. The play, written by Theresa Rebeck (television's Smash), is directed by accomplished Mendocino Theatre Company director Bob Cohen.
Opening April 23rd, the Mendocino Theatre Company is presents Mauritius, a darkly funny, unusual play about the hidden world of high-end stamp collecting. The play, written by Theresa Rebeck (television's Smash), is directed by accomplished Mendocino Theatre Company director Bob Cohen.
In the history of the Holocaust, the fate of Hungarian Jews stands out due to the exceptional speed with which their deportation was carried out by the Hungarian authorities cooperating with the Eichmann bureau very late in the war, in summer 1944. Almost half a million people were deported in less than three months, and over half a million were murdered in the course of World War II in forced labour units, in labor and death camps and in various pogroms conducted by Arrowcross men.
In the history of the Holocaust, the fate of Hungarian Jews stands out due to the exceptional speed with which their deportation was carried out by the Hungarian authorities cooperating with the Eichmann bureau very late in the war, in summer 1944. Almost half a million people were deported in less than three months, and over half a million were murdered in the course of World War II in forced labour units, in labor and death camps and in various pogroms conducted by Arrowcross men.